Follower Flashcards
What are Follower’s themes and comparisons
Negative conflicted familial relationship
Mother any distance
Climbing my grandfather
Hasn’t come up
The horse strained at ____
“The horse strained at his clicking tongue”
Imagery - Submission of a wild animal, displaying his father as an intimidating, imposing figure
“All I ever did _____”
“All I ever did was follow”
Hyperbole, feeling of constant inadequacy in comparison to his father, as if he’ll never measure to him
“Mapping the ____
“Mapping the furrow exactly”
Semantic field of admiration, saw his dad as an “expert”
Follower Structure
Cyclical Narrative, He was stumbling behind his father at the beginning and now it’s his father stumbling behind him
Poem is orginised into quatrains, neat and stable structure alike the well ploughed field in the poem.
